I've been meaning to post this for a while. I finally swapped out my rock, and thus the corals came out as well, so this seemed like a good time.
I joined the ARC around mid-2004. In 2005, I went to the annual frag meeting and picked up a couple of frags - one of them being a green pocillapora frag. Not terribly rare, but it was a free frag, and I was happy. Being a relatively common coral, I didn't take too many pictures over time, but I've managed to find a couple, and have posted them here.
Here's my fist shot - right after I came home from the frag meeting:
Feb 2005:
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Here we are on Apr 2006, about a year later. I'm pretty sure I upgraded tanks at this point:
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I have a gap where I don't have any good pictures of just the corals for a while. I do have this FTS, taken May 2008. You can see the coral at the top center of the tank. It looks a little bashed in b/c it had some die-off during my move between houses
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And finally, when I cut it off the rock the other day (Nov, 2008), I put it on a salt bucket lid and snapped a picture. I broke off a small colony or two when getting it out, but it's still pretty impressive:
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I've moved the coral into my wife's new 300g tank, but I'm not sure she'll keep it. Either way, I'll probably take the colonies that came off when it came out of my tank and frag them up for new ARC members.
I'm guessing this is one of the few surviving frags from that meeting long ago, so I wanted to show it off (and how much corals can grow, even in bad conditions).
This is 3.5 years growth, from a freebie frag to 10" coral. Congrats, ARC!:yay:
I joined the ARC around mid-2004. In 2005, I went to the annual frag meeting and picked up a couple of frags - one of them being a green pocillapora frag. Not terribly rare, but it was a free frag, and I was happy. Being a relatively common coral, I didn't take too many pictures over time, but I've managed to find a couple, and have posted them here.
Here's my fist shot - right after I came home from the frag meeting:
Feb 2005:
Here we are on Apr 2006, about a year later. I'm pretty sure I upgraded tanks at this point:
I have a gap where I don't have any good pictures of just the corals for a while. I do have this FTS, taken May 2008. You can see the coral at the top center of the tank. It looks a little bashed in b/c it had some die-off during my move between houses
And finally, when I cut it off the rock the other day (Nov, 2008), I put it on a salt bucket lid and snapped a picture. I broke off a small colony or two when getting it out, but it's still pretty impressive:
I've moved the coral into my wife's new 300g tank, but I'm not sure she'll keep it. Either way, I'll probably take the colonies that came off when it came out of my tank and frag them up for new ARC members.
I'm guessing this is one of the few surviving frags from that meeting long ago, so I wanted to show it off (and how much corals can grow, even in bad conditions).
This is 3.5 years growth, from a freebie frag to 10" coral. Congrats, ARC!:yay:
